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User centered everything
User centered everything the philosophical revolution(s) that gave rise to modernism(s) supplanted church and state in favor of the individual. Jason Kottke points us to a re-imagined, contemporary modernity enabled by our networks that place us — as user-consumers — in the center of the universe.
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Just a process note to remind myself about why I got a little prickly along the way. If I remember I lost focus — there’s an entry in the increasingly relevant book “101 Things I Learned in Architecture School” that I keep forgetting to look up properly — but the entry basically says the thing…
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A chess mod to better reflect modern warfare? Andrew Y Ames’s Last Resort is modified chess: war to protect civilians and territory. The Bleached side with pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, and a nuke, fights to free a foreign people in another land; the Oiled side with pawns, fights to be a free people in their…
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Papercraft (in)Action Figures installed at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas (by Rafael Fajardo)
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new and emerging media bread crumb trail . . .
http://www.rhizome.org http://www.newmediacaucus.org http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/ http://soundcloud.com/ http://www.aiga.org/ http://www.ixda.org/ http://www.behance.com/ http://www.core77.com/ http://www.deviantart.com/ http://cycling74.com/
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Bckground Three firms control 89% of US soft drink sales [1]. This dominance is obscured from us by the appearance of numerous choices on retailer shelves. Steve Hannaford refers to this as “pseudovariety,” or the illusion of diversity, concealing a lack of real choice [2]. To visualize the extent of pseudovariety in this industry we…
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Tumblr may collapse under its own weight, according to analysts
Tumblr may collapse under its own weight, according to analysts link is safe for work, but context (the site surrounding it) may be NSFW. via: Nerve.com/scanner
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Tumblr Staff: Fixing Content Attribution (Once and For All)
Tumblr Staff: Fixing Content Attribution (Once and For All) Back when we launched two of Tumblr’s most unique features, reblogging and the Tumblr Bookmarklet, we devised automatic “via” links in post captions as a simple solution for attribution. Three years later, this solution has gotten us pretty far. But it’s easy to spot some real…